The Farmer's Wife
- There have been two other films of the same name, The Farmer's Wife (1941 movie) and The Farmer's Wife (1998 movie).
The Farmer’s Wife is a silent movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released in 1928.
It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon.
The plot is a romantic comedy and tells the story of a lonely widower, Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who decides to remarry. He pursues several local spinsters, who each reject his advances. However, Aramintha (Lillian Hall-Davis), his housekeeper, is secretly in love with him and eventually Sweetland comes to realise that the right woman was there on his doorstep all along.
The supporting cast includes Gordon Harker, in a comic role as a surly workman called Churdles Ash; Gibb McLaughlin as Henry Coaker; and Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper.
The movie features cinematography by Jack E Cox, editing by Alfred Booth; and art direction by C Wilfred Arnold. The Assistant Director was Frank Mills.
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